Well, the wine we are drinking to-night reminds me of the martyr
blood of our massacred brethren of all ages."
Anna gave me a merry wink. I felt myself one of the family. I was
in the seventh heaven. She seemed to be particularly attentive to
me this evening
"I shall speak to her to-night," I decided. "I sha'n't wait another
day." And the fact that she was a nationalist and not an
unqualified socialist, like Elsie, for instance, seemed to me a new
source of encouragement. I was in a quiver of blissful excitement
The Four Questions are usually asked by the youngest son, but
Emil, the Internationalist, could not be expected to take an active
part in the ceremony, so Sasha, the Zionist, took his place. Sasha,
however, did not read Hebrew, and old Tevkin had to be content
with having the Four Questions read in English, the general
answer to them being given by Tevkin and myself in Hebrew. It
reminded me of an operatic performance in which the part of
Faust, for instance, is sung in French, while that of Margarita is
performed in some other language.
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